From THE REFORMER, September/October 2000,
pages 6-7
The Official Organ of the Protestant Alliance
(reproduced here with permission)

A very grave threat now exists to the ancient
liberties of the citizens of the United Kingdom. The
whole foundation of the judicial law in the nation state
is about to be overturned by a system based on dictatorship
and oppression of the spirit.

The plan to impose a single criminal justice system throughout
the European Union, including the United Kingdom, is advancing
at a rapid pace. Under the system proposed by Brussels, known
as Corpus Juris, Britain's historic freedoms and liberties are
to be ended in the name of a new "efficient" Europe.
It is no exaggeration to say that if implemented, the United
Kingdom, without Habeas Corpus and trial by jury, would in reality
become a police state.

It has, therefore, become imperative that the citizens
of the United Kingdom are woken from their sleep of apathy. The
European Legal Area Project, as it is officially described, constitutes
the greatest threat to Britain's most ancient and hallowed liberties
that its citizens have fought over many generations to maintain.
The great tapestry of Britain's law and Constitution is being
pulled apart and is now threatened with total disintegration.

The moment of truth has arrived when either the people
of Britain will submit to slavery under the EU Civil Law, or they
will determine to maintain the Common Law and their gift to the
free world, even if it means exclusion from the EuropeanUnion itself. If the British people are not prepared to
stand up and be counted on this, perhaps the most serious issue
of all, then they and their future generations will have to live
with the consequences - and they will be severe in the extreme.
Corpus Juris will end the separation of the judiciary from the
state, which then becomes both judge and jury, responsible for
the prosecution and sentence. A decision to prosecute is initiated
even before the opening of an investigation, in one place
in the explanatory memorandum to the Corpus Juris document, it
is actually described as a "fairer,simpler, and
more efficient system of repression" (Corpus Juris, page
40).

The word "efficiency" appears often in
this document; but it is an efficiency at the expense of justice!

Under this Napoleonic system, British citizens could
be held guilty before being able to prove themselves innocent.
Corpus Juris provides for imprisonment for up to six months without
charge and can be extended. The whole system is open to political
corruption, of which there has been a very great deal in some
Continental EU member states. In Britain and the island countries
throughout the English speaking world, liberty is understood to
mean liberty from arbitrary arrest and incarceration, as safeguarded
by Habeas Corpus and trial by jury: a judicial system which is
unknown anywhere on the European continent. For at least three
millennia there have been two systems of justice fighting for
supremacy in the history of the civilised world. One of liberty,
freedom and rights and the other one of oppression, slavery and
submission to dictatorship. What is the pedigree of these two
systems? What stables do they emanate from? It is vital that
our people are reminded about their system of justice which they
have passed on to the entire English-speaking world.

The system we know as English Common Law came from
Jerusalem via the Crimea and Greece to England. The other one,
known as Roman Civil Law, came from Babylon via Rome to Continental
Europe. This is the basic dichotomy between Britain and the European
Union; a division of two fundamentally different systems of law
and justice, a fact which has never ever been faced by Britain's
leaders and which must be faced, if our nation is ever again to
be true to its great heritage and birthright. Edward Coke, Lord
Chief Justice of England (1613-17), was the great defender of
English Common Law against the royal prerogative in the 17th century
Coke's Institutes are a legal classic; he ranks as the
supreme common lawyer. Coke wrote: "The original laws
of this land were composedof such elements as Brutus first
selected from theancient Greek and Trojan institutions".

When Brutus founded New Troy, or London as it became,
it was literally considered as the New Jerusalem founded on the
same principles and laws, all of which were given continuity in
the ninth century by Alfred the Great, who was obviously aware
of the origin of our laws.

Under the laws of Brutus every subject was as free
as the King. The laws in force were the "Common
Rights." The Usages of Britain could not be altered by any
act of the Crown or National Convention. Every Briton was born
to these inalienable rights of which no human legislation could
deprive him. One of these Usages was:

"There are three things belonging to a man,
from which no law can separate him
- his wife, his children and the instruments of his calling
(i.e. the tools of his trade)...",

Among the laws as enacted by King Dunwall, or Molmutius,
about 450 B.C. and quoted by Coke is: "Three things are
indispensable to a true union of nations: sameness of laws,
rights and language."

This very ancient system of law, for long known as
the Common Law, has been retained throughout the ages by England
alone, but spread about the world during the last four or five
hundred years. While the East eventually became subject to Mohammedan
Law, Roman Civil Law came to hold sway nearly everywhere in Europe,
except in Britain.

A great difference between the Civil Law and the
Common Law is that the Civil Law holds that every man and every
nation is guilty until he has proven himself to be innocent whereas
the Common Law holds that every man - and every nation - is innocent
until he has been proven guilty. So it is no exaggeration to
say that the end of all Britain's ancient liberties under the
Common Law and our traditional rights embodied in the English
Habeas Corpus Act 1679 (the main principles being
adopted in the US Constitution), is now at hand.

On 1st December 1999, Romano Prodi, the EU Commission
President, said clearly that the national veto in matters of justice
must be got rid of: it is like a "ball and chain around
Europe's ankle", he said.

The European Parliament has called for the creation
of a European Public Prosecutor and an extension of the EU's sphere
of control to cover police and criminal justice. But the need
to open up the legal borders only arises by the abolition
of the borders of the member states and the creation of the Common
Agricultural Policy (CAP), which one might think is made for criminal
activity

The design for oppression is manifestly clear: the
CAP = corruption = the need for Corpus Juris = the end of Britain's
Common Law freedom under Habeas Corpus. The ancient liberties
of Britain are about to be amputated unless the EU knife now taken
up is deflected. There is also the harmonisation of the Schengen
Accords through the asylum and immigration acts which are now
being used as the drive towards a Euro-police force. The threat
is fast moving towards becoming fact.

The French Revolution and the Third Reich are resurrecting
before our eyes and are on the verge of marching through our land
without a fight taking place. It should not be forgotten that
ancient liberties taken away without a fight are only regained
by a fight.

Our leaders have failed to realise that the diametrically
opposed principles of politico-economic and spiritual governance
of the ancient world, are an inherent part of the present conflict
of law between Britain and Continental Europe. Britain's membership
of the EU under the burden of the Treaty of Rome is fatally flawed.
It is like trying to bind iron and clay together. In the end
it must all fall apart and, as a nation, we will continue to ignore
this fact to our great cost.

A ravenous beast is about to be unleashed in Britain
and it will devour it if unchecked. The British Minister of State
for Home Affairs, Jack Straw, describes Britain's right to jury
trial as "frankly eccentric", indeed, the British are
"eccentric" in EU eyes and have been for centuries.

Jack Straw talks of saving £100 million of jury
costs, whereas the cornerstone of our liberties as a free people
was the reason for fighting the invasion attempts of history at
a cost of billions of pounds and millions of lives lost. No doubt
he will say it is more efficient - exactly as Corpus Juris does.
There are three areas of human activity in a nation: economic,
political - which extends to military - and spiritual.

We speak of the spirit of the law - the law is our
spiritual being and our birthright as a nation almost more than
anything else. Britain is about to lose that birthright of the
law and with it, its nationhood.

The veil must fall from Britain's eyes on this
betrayal of its Common Law rights and liberties. Its
people must implement actions, now, which will inform
the legal profession and the public at large of the threat
to Britain's liberties and freedoms under the law.

Britain will become enslaved if its people do
not act together in a matter of months with righteous
anger, an anger that will frighten our politicians, with
their blinkers and defective vision, into restoring the
birthright of our nation.